1Breaking News Denis Connor's Stars and Stripes syndicate is asking all challengers to support their call for New Zealand's America's Cup yacht KZ7 to be remeasured.

2United States President Ronald Reagan has made a live address to the nation in order to explain why the Super Power Summit in Reykjavik failed to reach an agreement on reducing nuclear weapons. He ascertained that the problem was Moscow's insistence that a reduction in nuclear weapons be linked to the United States abandoning the Star Wars missile defence programme.

3Prime Minister David Lange has conceded that he is already campaigning for the 1987 election as he embarks on an eight-week tour of New Zealand's provincial centres.He will visit over 12 key marginal seats, two days a week for the next eight weeks, trying to explain the Government's message in the regions.

4Hundreds of redundant workers from the Whakatu Meatworks sought help today from relief centres set up around Hawkes Bay. Meanwhile, the Opposition has blamed the closure of the plant on Government policies.

5New Zealand's Sikh community is at the centre of official security scrutiny prior to this week's visit by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

6Employers in Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin are preparing for tough union negotiations and potential disruptions to industrial relations.

7In Dunedin a rift has appeared in the ranks of the Engineers' Union. 350 Fisher and Paykel employees wish to accept the company's 6% wage rise offer, but the union will agree.

8Anti-mining protesters are camped out on pieces of a drilling rig in an effort to prevent a mining company from prospecting in the Whangapoua State Forest on the Coromandel Peninsula.

9Over 1000 students were evacuated from Wellington Girls' College this afternoon following a chlorine gas leak.

10The hearing of a $32 million damages against the United States Government began in Auckland today. The families of sixteen Air New Zealand crew members, killed in the Mount Erebus plane crash seven years ago, allege negligence by American Deep Freeze air traffic controllers.

11Defence MInister Frank O'Flynn has announced that women will soon be able to go to sea with Navy ships and fly planes for the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF).